Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

“Despite the high rating, the belief is that brute-force attacks won’t be successful against accounts with strong passwords. However, if weak passwords are in use, this would make brute-force attempts more successful.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. SocksEscort[.]com DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com include privnode[.]com

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

The attack could force remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that could then be easily cracked. As we saw when discussing the HiveNightmare zero-day, hashed passwords are useful to attackers. The authentication process does not require the plaintext password. Pass the hash. The hash is enough. Hard to patch.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Apple has also promised that passwords will be a thing of the past, and passkeys will become available for iOS 16. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Out of Palo Alto, California, Cloudera started in 2008 by alumni of Google, Yahoo!, With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. Born from Google in 2008, the Google Cloud Platform is a leading cloud infrastructure provider. Microsoft Azure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An investigation into indexed information from internet-connected devices provided a list of universities with compromised website security. UTEL is a private Mexican university for online education founded in 2008. Among the 20 cases found, at least six websites belong to the top 100 universities list worldwide.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

0patch will provide micropatches for Windows 7 and Server 2008 after EoS. Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you!

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

In total, we found nine auxiliary modules performing different malicious activities such as file gathering, keylogging, taking screenshots, recording the microphone and stealing passwords. Operation Groundbait was first described by ESET in 2016, with the first implants observed in 2008. Windows NT 10.0)

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Pen Test Partners

JULY 1, 2024

Versions before 4.4p1 are also vulnerable unless patches for CVE-2006- 5051 and CVE-2008-4109 have been applied. Also ask yourself the question: do I need to expose SSH to the untrusted internet? Use Strong Authentication: Enhance security by using key-based authentication and disabling password-based logins where possible.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Staying safe on the internet means knowing what privacy data is and how to help protect your personal information. Since 2008, however, the United States has also taken an interest in this occurrence. IdentityIQ.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As cloud computing has become increasingly popular, bucket breaches have exposed millions of records to the public Internet. These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. Also Read : Top Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) for 2021. Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This information includes website login usernames and passwords, as well as personal autofill data such as name, address, phone number, company, and job title. In contrast, the second thread periodically attempts to select a random internet IP address, with the following exclusions: Bogon networks like 0.0.0.0/8, 8, 10.0.0.0/8,

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2020

It is a challenge because the deception net is, or should be, configured to prevent access to the outside—including the internet, as well as local networks—by any code running inside the device. Our decoy is a Windows server 2008 with nothing particularly special about it beyond the fact that it is configured as a decoy.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Born from two board members of AVG Technologies, Evolution Equity Partners started in 2008 to help US and European-based entrepreneurs in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and consumer-enterprise crossover segments. In 2008, the Washington, DC-based firm made a prudent decision by shifting its focus to cybersecurity.

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Cytelligence

JULY 30, 2020

when exposed directly to the internet. Introduced in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server, RDG addresses some of these concerns by enabling organizations to keep their RDP endpoint servers behind a firewall by exposing just the RDG server to the internet in order to forward the RDP connections. Next steps ? .

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

The MapUrlToZone function is used to determine if the trust zone of a provided URL is local, intranet, or Internet. Systems Impacted: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Windows 11 Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Read more : [link] [link] 2.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For initial access, RansomHub affiliates often compromise internet-facing systems and user endpoints via phishing emails, password spraying, and exploiting high-risk remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S. Store, exchange, and control access to valuable data and any other PII from the Internet and/or any digital infrastructure. Blockchain Single Sign On for Leading Cloud Services Additional security is added by rethinking the username-and-password model of inputting credentials.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. So but before I'm not an early adopter of anything, it's not like I've had Bitcoin since 2008 or something. This really happened to Dan Reich and a friend.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For initial access, RansomHub affiliates often compromise internet-facing systems and user endpoints via phishing emails, password spraying, and exploiting high-risk remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As per usual, most of the critical flaws — those that can be exploited by malware or miscreants without any help from users — reside in Microsoft’s Web browsers Edge and Internet Explorer. Of course, if the target has Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed, it might be easier for attackers to achieve that log in.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka used multiple email addresses and nicknames on several Russian crime forums, but data collected by cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence show that Wazawaka’s alter egos always used one of three fairly unique passwords: 2k3x8x57 , 2k3X8X57 , and 00virtual. DomainTools.com [an advertiser on this site] reports mixfb@yandex.ru

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.” The WHOIS records for autodoska[.]biz

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Tell me a little bit about the problems with passwords and how passwordless solves for them.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. with no internet.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Mr. Mirza declined to respond to questions, but the exposed database information was removed from the Internet almost immediately after KrebsOnSecurity shared the offending links. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. com and usps-jobs[.]com.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The first computer password was created in 1961, when Fernando Corbató and his team at MIT created the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Computer security was in its infancy in the 60s.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 2, 2021

Even the 2008 financial crisis was imbued with substantial safety nets for many of the organisations that needed to be bailed out. One can compare the influence that cryptocurrencies have had on the current zeitgeist to the invention of the Internet or rail travel. Are Cryptocurrencies a Bubble or a ‘Safe-haven’?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. It’s one of the most infectious forms of malware out there.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

It was developed in 1993, in the unfortunate days when DES was the standard encryption algorithm, so thats what Microsoft used to generate the response, as described in the diagrambelow: As shown above, the clients password is transformed into an NT hash, which is the MD4 hash of the Unicode-encoded password, to be used as the DES encryption key.

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